I usually publicise new posts on Twitter, though I also have an Atom feed. However, Twitter relies on people seeing it at the right time, so I’ve set up a mailing list for new blog posts (and possibly very occasional annoucements).

There’s a task I have to do every now and again for which awk is the best tool, but it’s infrequent enough that I always have to remind myself how. Usually by referring back to some shell scripts we wrote 5 years ago, so thought I’d post here instead.

I run the website for SPA conference. This conference has been running for more than 20 years, and I’ve been the web admin since 2014. This is about one step in updating a 20-year-old legacy PHP site into something more modern: removing the integrated wiki. The story is in two parts and this part is about how I made sure links to the old wiki still worked. It involves many, many things I learned about .htaccess.

I run the website for SPA conference. This conference has been running for more than 20 years, and I’ve been the web admin since 2014. This is about one step in updating a 20-year-old legacy PHP site into something more modern: removing the integrated wiki. The story is in two parts, and this part is about why I removed the integrated wiki and the changes I made to the function of the site to accommodate that.

There are two big concerns government organisations have around making source code open. They want to know which subsets of the code should be kept closed and how to code in the open securely. To address these questions I’ve introduced two pieces of guidance:

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to work with my excellent colleagues Rosa Fox and Lucy Carey on a series of workshops to help get more underrepresented people in tech into public speaking. Lucy has written an excellent blog post about it including more details about the breakdown of the course.